Getting serious for a minute

Can I level with you, internet? What's a blog for, if not to spread out your inner-most self for the world to see, right?

I don't know whether the tone of my posts has come across as being any different lately, but I feel different. I wouldn't have thought having a second child would change my world view so much. But it has.

Not 100%, of course. I often still yell at Beeper, think about what else I could be doing, worry about what else needs to be done, and care what other people think.

But then I read something about a child with cancer. Someone who had a misscarriage. A stillborn baby, or one with birth defects. Then there's a couple who has always wanted children but can't conceive.

And I realize just how unfair life is. And how lucky I am to be blessed with two, healthy, happy, perfect boys. Along with the world's best husband.

And those other things don't matter anymore.

And for the first time that I can remember, I am content, for a moment, to just be.